Hardcover, 104 pages; 60 black and white plates
Introduction by Roddy MacInnes, MA, associate professor of photography, University of Denver
Featuring an interview with the artist by Blake Milteer
Essay by John Nichols
Afterword by Susan Zwinger
Published June 2011
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Barbara Sparks’ passion for photography began in 1959, during college, when she took an art tour of Europe. On that trip, her fascination deepened when a man—whom she would later marry—gave her Edward Steichen’s book The Family of Man. Since then, she has traveled to such far-flung destinations as the Cappadocia region of Turkey; the Kali Gandaki River in Nepal; Mayan villages of Guatemala; and the dusty, light-filled hill towns of Italy. A passionate naturalist, Sparks has also turned her camera on Colorado and New Mexico, revealing her fine-tuned and sensitive eye for light and people. A constant theme of indigenous cultures runs through this book. With a ringing clarity, Sparks focuses on definitive landscapes and how man assimilates. Sparks has collaborated on three books: Aspen, Blazon of the High Country with Ann Zwinger; Colorado’s Sangre de Cristo Mountains with Tom Wolf; and Spanish Peaks: Land Legends with Conger Beasley. Her work has been shown in both solo and group exhibitions, and added to the permanent collections of the Harwood Museum, Millicent Rogers Museum, The Palmer Museum of Art at Pennsylvania State University, Sangre de Cristo Art Center, and the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center.